was procured from the Southern colony, but the greater number of the houses were of the type referred to.. A characteristic specimen of this style survived till within afew years ago in the house inhabited by the firm of Shaw, Ripley & Ca. at the ju tion of the Ropewalk Road, now the Ki king Road, and the Bund. As lind was cheap an open space generally surrounded these primitive houses, and the compounds were planted with trees, mostly willows. As the growth of a city was not conte: plated the passage-ways were never denominated streets but were called simply roads, and of these tive first Inid out were the Consulate, now the Peking Road; Park Lane, now the Nanking Road: Kirk's Avenue, now the Ningpo Read the Ropewalk Road, and the Foochow Road. Crossing them approximately at right angles were Bridge Street so called from a foot-bridge over the Yangkingpang, reaching to the Nipadoo at the mouth of the Soochow Creek; Clurch Street, so named from a site set apart for the Consular Chapel; while the Settlement was bounded on the west by the Barrier Road, now the Honan Road, marked apparently by a line of fencing with gates, outside which lay the site of the Old Cemetery. 'The great house of Jardine, Matheson & Ca. acquired as was their wont, Lot No. 1 in the new Settlement, ivin; immediately south of the Consular site, an' after some time, apparently from designs sent from the South, proceeded to build a large house afterwards occupied by the Oriental Bank Corporation and still exis ing in the Peking Road. Dent & Ca., more true to the old traditions, built a house, which has disappeared, in the old style with woodcolumnsand wide enclosing verandahs, and then they with the aid of a travelling botanist whose name, Fortune, is still well known in the botanical world, proceeded to lay out a compound where the first foreign trees introduced into the Settlement were planted by Mr. Beale, then the local head of the firm, "The work un these houses was executed either in the- South or by Cantonese workmen introduced from the South, one of whom, known as Chop Dollar, quickly assumed the post of the leading contractor, and
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